I first became vegan around Eastertime. (I gave up dairy products for Lent that year) As someone who enjoys being creative, I very much missed the tradition of dyeing Easter eggs. Therefore, when Easter came around the next year, I was determined to find a way in which I, too, could partake in the Easter festivities.
For those of you who miss Easter egg-dyeing like I did, or if you just want to have some extra fun this year, here’s a list of some great Easter activities that are cruelty-free:
Alternatives to Dyeing Eggs:
- Make sugar cookies, such as my Healthy Sugar Cookies, and decorate them instead of decorating eggs. Sugar cookies taste better than eggs anyway!
- Make Easter greeting cards, and bring them to a local nursing home. I’ve done this for two years in a row now, and the residents really appreciate it.
- Bake and decorate a cake—or cupcakes.
- Use plastic “eggs” and create a scavenger hunt for a little kid, putting clues in the eggs. Or, persuade someone to make a scavenger hunt for you!
- Hide plastic eggs around the house (or, if you don’t like the symbolism of eggs, use something else—I found plastic carrots this year!). Set up a contest for children to see who can find the most “eggs”. Or, have someone else hide the eggs, so you can participate in the contest. The best part about this idea? If an “egg” is never found and the “hider” forgets where it was hidden, it won’t rot and release a foul odor days later! (And you won’t have to worry that it’ll be found by a household member of the canine variety.)
And the best alternative?
Make these: Copycat Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs.
You won’t be sorry! 😉
crazy, awesome talent! wow. so, you mailed my cookies already, right? because i’d like them by sunday.
Cool ideas! I was worried I’d feel left out this year but I’m positive my family would much rather decorate cookies than eggs anyways.
oh my goodness those sugar cookies are sooo cute! so is your cake!
These are fantastic ideas! I never liked painting eggs growing up… I hated eating eggs, touching eggs, just being around eggs was something I hated.
Sugar cookies!!! Ahhh… Yummy.
And that cake is SO cute! How did you get so talented?
LINDSAY LOVES KATIE. Lindsay Loves Katies always beautiful, colorful and cute sugar friends. Lindsay really loves that Katie loves her meatloaf… (I think youre an addict, thats okay, mee too!)
We don’t celebrate Easter but I always love a reason to play with marzapan… so….
The vegan white chocolate chips are pretty good, but sadly not as good as the “original”. They are sweeter and not quite as creamy tasting, but I had a craving and they definitely satisfied that! In the future I might take a stab at making homemade white chocolate though.
you are so fun and cool!!!
Those ideas are great! I especially like the sugar cookie idea.
I totally second Vegan Addict…I’m in philadelphia and WILL pay 🙂 I totally empathize with your loving to decorate cookies! It’s SO satisfying, especially when you get to eat them 🙂 LOVE these beauties!
Great ideas! I do miss dying eggs. And strangely, I never thought about decorating egg-shaped cookies. I may not have time to do it this year (got a busy weekend). But I’ll file that idea away for next!
My friends and I are having a plastic egg hunt on Saturday though. We get cool grown-up prizes…like candles and lotions and stuff. We just put numbers in each “egg” so we know who gets what.